Fire Alarms Systems

The fast new Firefox release schedule has stolen some of the scene away from Chrome and threw it back into the lap of Mozilla, but not all of the attention has been good. The rapid-fire pace of introduction of new products caused enterprises to pack system administrators metaphorically their torches and storm the castle, while a rumor that Firefox version numbers would completely ditch, led to even more consumer angst. Two major Mozilla employees tried pouring water on the flames of discontent during the week.

First off, is not flat-out get rid of Firefox version numbers; designer Alex Faaborg, said the rumor, because some misunderstandings between the members of the dev team has started.

"Just in case this was lost among the many topics in progress: there are no plans to match the version number will remain at its present site in the About window, and we will continue with the current numbering.."

Meanwhile, Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker acknowledged the difficulties - such as enterprise issues and broken add-on compatibility - which caused a rapid release schedule, but said that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. It used to be published a year or more between major Firefox, Baker said, and that kind of time frame is simply not acceptable in the modern world quickly past.

"A browser is the delivery vehicle for the Internet. And the Internet is very, very fast moving," said Baker. "Philosophically, I do not think a product that can be moved at the speed of traditional desktop software in order to the Internet, where things happen effectively in real time. If we the browser will be the interface for the Internet, we need making it look like the Internet. "

There is a compelling argument to make sure it is there but the hordes of excited administrators ready to dump Firefox and piled back into Internet Explorer, the slow-release arms?